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Fires

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  • Five men sit smoking round a fireplace, another stands with his back to the fire. Mezzotint after A. van Ostade (?).
  • South Africa: Zulu women brewing beer. Coloured lithograph by G.F. Angas, 1849.
  • Louisa Mabreé, a French midwife being executed in a cage full of cats above a fire. Coloured aquatint.
  • Women wearing crinolines which are set on fire by flames from a domestic fireplace. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1860.
  • The London Fever Hospital, Liverpool Road, Islington: two nurses and a patient [?] in front of a guarded fire. Watercolour painting by Nurse Flower, 1891.
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    Sailing ships at sea, turnip-like plants found in northern Russia and the Samoyed people with their tents and boats, in separate plates. Engraving after C. de Bruin, 1701.

    Bruyn, Cornelis de, 1652-1727. | Date: [1718] | Reference: 20216i
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    Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) as protector against fires. Engraving by Geoffroy.

    | Date: [1842?] | Reference: 10199i
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    A journal of the plague year, or, Memorials of the great pestilence in London, in 1665 / by Daniel De Foe. Revised edition with historical notes by E. W. Brayley ... Also, some account of the great fire in London in 1666, by Gideon Harvey ... with an appendix containing the Earl of Clarendon's account of the fire. With illustrations on steel by George Cruikshank.

    Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. | Date: [1881]
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    A woman's chemise catches fire. Coloured photomechanical reproduction after A. Legrand after J.H. Fragonard.

    Fragonard, Jean-Honoré, 1732-1806. | Reference: 16023i
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    The London Fever Hospital, Liverpool Road, Islington: a nurse and two female patients [?] one drying her hair in front of a fire. Watercolour painting by Nurse Flower, 1891.

    Flower (Nurse), active 1891. | Date: 1891 | Reference: 38505i
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